Professor Pflugfelder's work engages historical constructions of gender, sexuality, and the body in Japan as well as in East Asia and the world more broadly. In 2003-2004, Professor Pflugfelder taught courses on theories of masculinity, the cultural history of monsters, the historiography of East Asia, and postwar Japanese history. With Weatherhead sponsorship, he recently created an exhibition titled “Godzilla Conquers the Globe: Japanese Movie Monsters in International Film Art” at Columbia's C.V. Starr East Asian Library. The exhibition marked the fiftieth anniversary of the original Godzilla film, Gojira (1954), and may be viewed online at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/dkc/calendar/godzilla/. His books include Seiji to Daidokoro: Akita-ken joshi sanseiken undoshi (Politics and the kitchen: a history of the women's suffrage movement in Akita prefecture; Domesu Shuppan, 1986), which received the 1986 Yamakawa Kikue Prize, and Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950 (University of California Press,1999), which received Honorable Mention in the 2000 competition for the John Boswell Prize. Forthcoming books are JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan's Animal Life (coedited with Brett L. Walker; University of Michigan Press, 2005) and Queer Archipelago: Historical Explorations in Japanese Gender and Sexuality. Professor Pflugfelder received his B.A. from Harvard in 1981, his M.A. from Waseda in 1984, and his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1996. He began teaching at Columbia in 1996.